The man who out-traveled Marco Polo

The Moroccan jurist Ibn Battuta left Tangier in 1325 — the year after Marco Polo died — and did not settle again for nearly three decades. By the time he dictated his travelogue, the Rihla, he had covered roughly 75,000 miles (about 120,000 km) from Timbuktu to the Maldives to the coast of China, a documented range no traveler of his era is known to have matched.

One of many fact-checked wonders across eight traditions at The Spring of Wisdom.